intrude

Example Sentences

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It was best not to probe, not to intrude, I thought.

From Literature

This signal confirmed that magma had intruded beneath the volcano.

From Science Daily

“I have never desecrated any family heirloom or intruded upon anyone’s private memorial,” she wrote.

From Los Angeles Times

Saber-rattling trumpet and timpani intrude and are shushed away as worthless.

From Los Angeles Times

Anderson plays the children's mother, whose presence intrudes into the family's lives despite her apparently having been killed by wolves.

From Barron's